"Schoolfellow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... after the Latin version quoted by Sir Wm. Temple in his essay "Of Heroic Virtue";[7] so that the romantic leanings of the Warton brothers seem to be an instance of heredity. Joseph was educated at Winchester,—where Collins was his schoolfellow—and both of the brothers at Oxford. Joseph afterward became headmaster of Winchester, and lived till 1800, surviving his younger brother ten years. Thomas was always identified with Oxford, where he resided for forty-seven years. He ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... a child from India, and was sent early to the Charter House. Of his life and doings there his friend and schoolfellow George Venables ...
— Thackeray • Anthony Trollope
... was at the Little Seminary—I have not been wrong then—but it is your name, my good schoolfellow, which escapes me; and now you look so distinguished that I hope you are not going to forget a ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... but he had escaped out of the back door, with the loss only of his white periwig. The Russians had taken four prisoners, and I commanded them to bestow fifty strokes upon each of them in the open street. An ensign, named Casseburg, having told me his name, and that he had been my brother's schoolfellow, begged remission, and excused himself on the necessity which he was under to obey his superiors. I admitted his excuses and suffered him to go. I then drew my sword and bade the lieutenant defend himself; ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 1 (of 2) • Baron Trenck
... Towards his old schoolfellow Gladstone he never felt quite cordially, believing, rightly or wrongly, that the great statesman nourished enmity towards himself. He called him, as has been said, "a good man in the worst sense of the term, conscientious with a diseased conscience." He watched with much amusement, as illustrating ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell
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